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The best books of 2017

Our critics list their top picks in various genres.

Ann McKee with a specimen in her laboratory at VA Boston. She is also director of the Boston University CTE Center.

Bostonian of the Year

Bostonian of the Year 2017: The concussion researcher

Football may never be the same after the VA Boston scientist?s research on head injuries.

?They never were part of the mainstream,? said Robert Trestan, the New England regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, in reference to fringe groups.

?Push the bigots back into the corner,? ADL official says on hateful graffiti

Incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti and other hateful acts have surfaced in several Massachusetts communities in recent months.

Republicans have an agreement on tax proposal

Details still need to be drafted and assessed by congressional scorekeepers but the final compromise is on track to be unveiled this week.

Three schools sever ties with influential musician amid abuse allegations

Eric Alexander Hewitt, a leader in Boston?s contemporary classical music scene, was let go amid a Globe investigation of alleged sexual improprieties.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/890658806.jpg We tried to find the rabbi Roy Moore?s wife said they?re friends with. Here?s what happened

Alabama may not have that many rabbis. How hard would it be to find the one who befriended Roy Moore and his wife?

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After spending his first seven months in the hospital, Judah is heading home for the holidays

Born dangerously premature at 26 weeks, Judah finally gets to be home with mom and dad?and just in time for Santa.

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?Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low,? the editorial said.

GROUND GAME

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/BrownJones.jpg Is Alabama?s Doug Jones the Scott Brown of 2017? Yes and no

The comparisons began the moment the final results came. Tuesday night?s upset looked an awful like another unlikely win in Massachusetts seven years ago.

NESTOR RAMOS

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/nestormugfull-11446.jpg Good riddance, Roy Moore ? but don?t call it a reckoning

Only by the thoroughly debased standards of our current political moment does a narrow victory over this ridiculous man qualify as a sort of reckoning.

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Luc Robitaille?s wife said when she rebuffed Donald Trump?s advances, he told her that her husband ?didn?t make as much money as him.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/bidenmccain-4988.jpg Joe Biden consoles daughter of ailing John McCain on TV

Meghan McCain began crying while discussing her father?s battle with brain cancer on ABC?s ?The View.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Politics/Images/AFP_V49MN.jpg Omarosa Manigault Newman set to leave White House

One of President Trump?s most prominent African-American supporters plans to leave the administration next month.

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After spending his first seven months in the hospital, Judah is heading home for the holidays

Born dangerously premature at 26 weeks, Judah finally gets to be home with mom and dad?and just in time for Santa.

This content was produced by Boston Globe Media in collaboration with the advertiser. The news and editorial departments of The Boston Globe had no role in its production or display.

Office towers made for dark canyons downtown around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday.

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Darkness at almost noon: Our annual journey through the days of waning sunlight

A reporter battles SAD and meets the man who might be the cure for the 4:11 sunset.

The Season Ticket podcast

The Harlem Globetrotters join guest host Joe Sullivan to talk about their jobs as ambassadors of goodwill.

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Anthony Amore has, since 2005, been the security chief at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and has continued to try to find the masterworks stolen in the notorious 1990 heist.

Gardner security chief will seek state rep seat in 2018

Anthony Amore, a Swampscott resident, will seek the GOP nomination to take on the incumbent, Representative Lori A. Ehrlich, a Marblehead Democrat.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/3e79cebe95df40d08fb15f1d72acd84b-3e79cebe95df40d08fb15f1d72acd84b-0.jpg Salma Hayek says rebuffing Harvey Weinstein led to nightmare on ?Frida?

In an op-ed, the actress said her refusals of Harvey Weinstein?s advances led to a nightmare experience making the 2002 Frida Kahlo biopic ?Frida.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/Snapseed(103).jpg An expecting dad staged his own pregnancy photo shoot. Hilarity ensued

The Peabody resident surprised his pregnant girlfriend with the photos at their gender reveal party before their son, Logan, was born.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/unnamed-11535.png State OKs $125m project to replace Boston Arts Academy building

The Massachusetts School Building Authority is poised to approve Wednesday morning a project to replace the academy?s building in the Fenway.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/30/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/AFP_UQ3AP.jpg The hottest Google search term in Boston this year was . . .

Search engine giant Google on Wednesday released its annual list of the top trending searches among Boston users.

Opinion & Ideas

JOAN VENNOCHI

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/12/13/BostonGlobe.com/EditorialOpinion/Images/vennochi-3727.jpg Craziness has its limits in Alabama

In Alabama, Roy Moore came to represent a bridge too far for at least 671,151 voters.

Newsletters

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Opinion columnist Michael Cohen takes a candid and no-holds-barred look at the current political moment. Sign up now.

Special reports

Magazine | A nonfiction novella

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/11/01/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/muck1105altimage-2940[1].jpg He put BSO on the map ? then landed in a world of trouble

One hundred years ago, one of the world?s top conductors was ensnared in a scandal involving patriotism and sex. It almost toppled Boston?s famed orchestra.

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